Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

A successful work of art is not one which resolves objective contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

Kitsch parodies catharsis...It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is a poison admixed to all art; excising it is today one of art's despairing efforts.

In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation.

Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.